I’m happy to have the chance to update the site with another editorial, and amazingly, it still takes little time to think of another topic to pencil in for posting. There are so many to choose from. Finding the time to write them can be another story, but here I am....

For me, all of this started not with pipettes, but with automatic burettes. We were in fact not allowed to use pipettes in that laboratory, in favor of class ‘A’ volumetric glassware. The sample preparation deliveries supported HPLC test methods, and I can’t say I...

Society for Maintenance and Reliability Professional’s (SMRP) Annual Conference takes place this year in Indianapolis, Indiana from October 14-16, 2013 with a focus on productivity, best practice solutions, and emerging trends in 5 great pharmaceutical and biotech...

Welcome, Metrologists, QA Personnel, Regulated Personnel and otherwise, Where to start? This being the first of a series of editorials on life in the field of calibration in regulated environments; I ponder the genre of materials that I could contribute, should...

Have you ever seen a pharmaceutical facilities department with four heads? It’s the stuff of fireplace folklore. Long, long ago, swamps once untouched by man thrived with these beasts, until such time as their reclamation, making way for the pharmaceutical and...